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by pyduan 13y ago
What is regrettable in all this is that no one seems to consider the possibility that people may have nuanced views about gay marriage. According to the mob you're either a saint or a bigot, and thus Eich's value as a human being
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How countries calculate their GDP(economist.com)
5 points by pyduan 13y ago|0 comments
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by pyduan 13y ago
Here are two other arguments in favor for college on top of patio11's: 1) While you may be worried about the depth of the content in your field, be aware that college is also a great way to acquire breadth : this is the best way to
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by pyduan 13y ago
Thanks for weighing in, but you are completely misrepresenting my argument by reducing "Big Data" to "data that reaches a certain n" and responding to claims I did not make. As you are probably aware, doing these kind of
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by pyduan 13y ago
I feel Dr. Goodson is fighting a straw man here. Nowhere does the original article make the statement that Google used an "unbelievably complex model that no one could ever understand", or that we had no understanding of why GFT
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by pyduan 13y ago
My understanding is that although interesting because of its counterintuitiveness, this effect is much more situational than Sivers lets on. To those who say they've usually observed the opposite at work, I believe the main criterion i
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by pyduan 13y ago
Please note that Aubrey de Grey's theories are highly controversial and while some of these mechanisms are indeed big topics in the field, many biogerontologists have been publicly skeptical of his claims. In fact, some of these are ev
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by pyduan 13y ago
This is a courageous article. Sadly, it seems mental illnesses are one of the great taboos of today (and don't even get me started on the state of mental health care in the US). Similarly, mental illnesses are extremely misunderstood,
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by pyduan 13y ago
Oh, I completely agree -- I am well aware of this (in fact as you can guess we have a similar challenge problem with fraudulent even organizers). Which is why I precised I was talking about buyer fraud and not merchant fraud, and that one s
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by pyduan 13y ago
To add on this, I would advocate you to think more in terms of user experience (which pc addressed very well) rather than fraud liability when making your decision. Of course it depends how big your customers are, how well-educated about fr
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by pyduan 13y ago
Well in joshbert's defense the original phrasing already says "single, female, non-technical founder with no team " which would make this interpretation slightly redundant, so I can understand why he read it that way.
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by pyduan 13y ago
It's unfortunate that the only other comments so far are about the fact this article is a few years old. Clearly what's interesting here is the method itself, not its immediate impact on the StarCraft II metagame. Real-time strate
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by pyduan 13y ago
Not necessarily. For it to be true you would need to make the following assumptions: 1) Perks-related expenditure have a linear effect on happiness 2) Productivity is a linear function of the number of workers 3) The caliber of the 12% addi
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5 Sigma – What’s That?(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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The best part is that now that it's been posted it has now become impossible to disagree, because attempting to disprove it would actually validate the law.
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by pyduan 13y ago
Aside from the other problems that have been pointed out, this would provide an incentive for prisons to favor groups that have been statistically linked to lower recidism rates -- not only could it create some kind of favoritism, it woul
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Simpson's Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by pyduan 13y ago|0 comments
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by pyduan 13y ago
Well I would say that as far as Chu is concerned, any long term consequences his actions may have on the game are likely to be mere externalities to him since these will probably not happen until he's already extracted the value he wan
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Jeopardy's controversial new champion is using game theory to win big(businessinsider.com)
74 points by pyduan 13y ago|14 comments
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Yahoo Detects Mass Hack Attempt On Yahoo Mail, Resets All Affected Passwords(techcrunch.com)
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by pyduan 13y ago
I think you may have misinterpreted my comment (you know I don't work for Square right?). > Hard problems should be challenges, not excuses. Which is precisely why I mentioned in my original post that my preference (and Eventbrite&#
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by pyduan 13y ago
(Disclaimer: I write fraud detection algorithms for Eventbrite, and work closely with the team that built the fraud systems at PayPal.) I'm sorry this happened to you. I personally believe the burden of proof should be on the company.
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by pyduan 13y ago
The "average" is not a technical term in statistics. It's a shortcut in everyday speak for some measure of centrality. What you're referring to is (probably) the arithmetic mean, but the average can be any other measure
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by pyduan 13y ago
Given Google's emphasis on quantifying every aspect of recruitment, I wouldn't be surprised if the reason is because their numbers show that contacting people who previously rejected offers was more likely to result in a hire than
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by pyduan 13y ago
This feels like pure numerology to me, with the entire argument being based on some vague numeric coincidence. I have no experience in food manufacturing, but I'm willing to bet there are much easier ways to mix dough at any desired pr
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A better way to pay workers(newyorker.com)
4 points by pyduan 13y ago|1 comments
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2014 Gates Annual Letter: Myths that block progress for the poor(annualletter.gatesfoundation.org)
490 points by pyduan 13y ago|307 comments
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by pyduan 13y ago
Interested in getting in touch, although I may not be able to give you exactly what you're looking for. I grew up in Paris and am currently looking to start a company in SV, so I'm curious about what prompts you to do the opposite
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by pyduan 13y ago
This is great. For a weekend project this looks and feels very polished. Possible suggestions: it looks like it is 'just' retrieving one's list of subscribed subreddits then displaying manually curated lists for each category
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Nassim Taleb: We should retire the notion of standard deviation(edge.org)
248 points by pyduan 13y ago|244 comments

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